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Man uses spoon to break out of Russian maximum-security prison

Well, you don’t see this every day.

From the article: “Topalov, who was sentenced for double murder and arms trafficking, used the spoon to create a hole in the cell’s roof, opened a ventilation shaft and then climbed to the prison’s roof, finally escaping over the building’s perimeter fence.”

To what do we owe this escape?

Russian investigators have blamed Topalov’s escape on the prison staff, whom they say engaged in a “dishonest or careless attitude to their work that was made use of by the prisoner Topalov.”